I\u2019ve gotten several questions about this lately \u2013 from my mother to a Type 1 diabetic. <\/p>\n
Yes, I am a Type 2 diabetic but have tendencies towards Type 1. Whether I have both Type 1 and Type 2 or whether my pancreasis doesn\u2019t function at all any more (Will Dubois writes about this in books), I am insulin dependent and have been for over 8 years. Maybe as long as 10 years.<\/p>\n
I was diagnosed almost 10 years ago. I went to the doctor before school started and he scheduled a fasting glucose test for as soon as possible which ended up being a staff development day in September (I did the staff development in the summer). I remember going to the lab in the morning, drinking glucose and getting madder and madder every minute. Between two of the blood draws I went to Aubrey Hawkin\u2019s memorial site (an Irving police office and gentleman who was a good friend of mine and who got gunned down on Christmas Eve). That accounted for some of the mad.<\/p>\n
The lab only gathered the samples, the results were read later and sent to my doctor\u2019s office during the weekend.<\/p>\n
As the weekend progressed, I got madder and madder.<\/p>\n
When I had passed 5 people on Monday morning and just wanted to slap them, I knew something horrible was wrong and called my doctor\u2019s office as they were trying to call me. They told me to drop everything and come in NOW. I called and asked for a sub for the day.<\/p>\n
My blood sugar was out of site, they gave me metforum and instructions to attend a diabetes class. I did the next couple of days. My blood sugar wouldn\u2019t go down, and so we almost immediately went to insulin.<\/p>\n
That was then.<\/p>\n
For the past two years, I\u2019ve been so afraid of going low, I\u2019ve been running too high. I have been forgetting to check my blood sugar and in all ways possible been a bad diabetic. I\u2019ve been lucky and haven\u2019t had any complications, except for hypo-and hyper- glycemic unawareness.<\/p>\n
This is where the dog comes in. <\/p>\n
She is aware.<\/p>\n
Yeah, it\u2019s a pain to drag her around and keep her with me 24 \/ 7 but with her around I can keep good control again and I\u2019m slowly starting to feel better.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s nice.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a drag to explain it all to total strangers. It will be interesting to have her on campus. But in the long run it will be better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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